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Originally Posted by movieguy
Have you looked at hospitalization rates? That's the one that scares me more. Death rates don't give you a sense of how bad you can feel. I have two acquaintances who said they felt like dying during their infection and were close to going to the hospital. Young, healthy guys.
Here in Canada, my age group has a 0.9% death rate due to COVID, but a 15% rate of hospitalization. Among my culture, we don't look at the numbers to say, "you only have a 0.9% chance of dying", but we say, "you have a 15% chance of being close to death".
I don't want a 15% chance of being on a ventilator, or like my friend who survived, but said he felt like he was drowning with every breath for 2 weeks.
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I'm in Canada too. I look at the numbers every week.
You are wrong.
Most deaths have occurred in nursing homes. Most people tested were those with bad symptoms. The rest who were mild, moderate (and even bad in many cases) were not tested so the true rate of hospitalization, or anything for that matter can't be calculated and is much better than reported.